Affiliation
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The fixing any one with the paternity of a bastard child, and the obligation to maintain it. In French law. A species of adoption Which exists by custom in some paris of Frauce. The person afiiliated succeeded equally with other heirs to the property acqhired by the deceased to whom he had been atiiliated, but net te that which he inherited.
Bouvier.
In ecclesiasticallaw. A condition which person affiliated to another convent. Guyot, Repert.